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A guide to Google Daydream VR for developers using Unity or Android
Developers looking to work with newly announced Google VR Daydream (at Google I/O 2016) will have to wait for the next-gen of smartphones to come out with the hardware to support the virtual reality platform, but meanwhile can catch up with the expectations of the specifications and look at supporting APIs and SDKs. Today Google announced ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 May 18: Johoe to join SatoshiLabs, Gatecoin hacked for $2M in cryptocurrency, Thunder Network brings the lightning to the Bitcoin blockchain
This week Blockchain.info is bringing the thunder–in a literary literal sense–with the Thunder Network, a proof-of-concept side-chain system developed from the Lightning Network whitepaper proposal for the Bitcoin blockchain. The Lightning network has been in research and development for some time and suggests a future solution that will allow transactions in Bitcoin to run faster ...
How to: Watch the Google I/O Keynote 360-degree VR live stream video with Google Cardboard
Tomorrow Google I/O 2016 will begin, and in all its glory the visiting audience will bask in the light that is Google’s premier developer conference. Everyone else will have to watch from their PCs and mobile phones—but this year the Internet gets a seat in the audience via 360-degree virtual reality (VR) live streamed video. ...
CircleCI receives $18 million in Series B funding round with Scale Venture Partners
Continuous delivery automation company CircleCI (Circle Internet Services, Inc.) today announced that it has secured $18 million in Series B funding led by Scale Venture Partners. Already existing investors investors DFJ, Baseline Ventures, and Harrison Metal also participated and this brings total financing for the company to $28 million. The company intends to use the new funds to continue ...
The Marvel headset may be the first try at a VR desktop on your phone
An Indigogo campaign called “The Marvel by Finman” claims to be the first attempt to make a virtual reality (VR) operating system (OS). While there have been VR marketplaces and platforms for the current VR devices released–such as the Gear VR marketplace (from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.), SteamVR (from Valve Corporation) and Zeality (Zeality, Inc.) —this would be ...
Roger Ver launches casino on Bitcoin.com, Americans not allowed
A brand new Bitcoin casino has launched for international players at Roger Ver’s Bitcoin.com under the domain Casino.Bitcoin.com. The newly minted site is the product of a deal between Bitcoin.com and SoftSwiss Casino Software (SoftSwiss N.V.), a Curaçao-based market leader in online gaming, will bring over 1,000 games including high-stakes gambling. This deal continues to ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 May 11: OpenBazaar 1.1.5, Bitbank Chinese mine, Gemini adds Ethereum trading
Looks like Bitcoin survived the recent appearance and disappearance of self-proclaimed inventor of Bitcoin, Craig Wright. Who made his debut along with promises of proof last Monday and lasted until Thursday when he abruptly pulled up stakes taking his alleged proof with him and closed his blog. This week’s news is nowhere near as exciting ...
Container automation firm Wercker announces Wercker Workflows for development pipelines
Container-centric developer automation platform Wercker BV today announced the release of Wercker Workflows, management solution for custom Docker container pipelines supporting distributed applications and microservices. Earlier this year, Wercker raised $4.5 million USD in a Series A funding round for a total of $7.5 million USD being put towards the development of this sort of ...
With TVU Networks’ equipment, Virtual Reality broadcast over IP may come to a concert near you
Last month at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2016 conference, TVU Networks, a market leading telecommunications equipment supplier for broadcast media, demonstrated mobile transmission of virtual reality (VR) media over IP. With this technology, TVU expects to deliver the equipment needed to make live broadcast of VR content for wide scale adoption. While video ...
Craig Wright, most recent alleged inventor of Bitcoin says, ‘I’m Sorry’ and quits
In a sudden reversal, Craig Steven Wright–an Australian entrepreneur and computer scientist also the most recent person to claim to be the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto, inventor of Bitcoin—has rolled up his blog and quit. I’m Sorry I believed that I could do this. I believed that I could put the years of anonymity and hiding ...